link to original reddit post by /u/mrpenguin_86
I had a random brain fart/thought this morning. Have you ever noticed how any attempt to modernize voting, be it allowing online voting or allowing people to take more control over the government via some electoral process, is always met by criticisms by (generally racist) people saying voting has to be made as easy as possible because minorities may not have access to the internet or transportation to get to a voting place. Not that I have ever met any non-caucasian who didn't have internet access even 7 years ago when I moved away from one of the poorest, most-heavily-hispanic-dominated major cities in the country.
Now, couple this with the fact that it has very strongly been agreed upon by the government that ignorance of the law is not an excuse in violating the law. If you do something on January 2nd that was totally legal December 30th and was made illegal in some obscure rider to a finance budget that got slipped in after 2 minutes of debate, you can go to jail.
So, on the one hand, the government will jail each and every one of us for not knowing the absolute up to date status of all laws passed, most before we were even born, including the 10,000 that seem to be made each year. Yet it's also totally okay to be so out of touch that the electoral process is not allowed to be made any simpler, more efficient, or more transparent because there theoretically exists someone who would not be able to vote in the sacred democratic process.
What a farce.